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Re:ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25: Limited Edition ThinkPad... by tosstossy on Thursday October 05, 2017 @12:23PM (#15410404)
The x62 is super attractive, except even the sxga+ mod is still a dim CCFL, or if you mod for led slightly brighter but colors all wrong with all sorts of artifacts from the light strip, and aftermarket-only awful batteries.

-An sxga+ (w/led mod) x61s owner.

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Re:ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25: Limited Edition ThinkPad... by radialbrain on Thursday October 05, 2017 @01:59PM (#15411130)
Typing this on an LED SXGA X61, you want: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/thinkpad/led-kit.shtml

No banding on the bottom, accurate colors, and great brightness.

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Re:ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25: Limited Edition ThinkPad... by tosstossy on Thursday October 05, 2017 @02:24PM (#15411396)
My mod was less successful, and the colors are definitely off. Having done the mod myself and seen how cumbersome it is to get the LED strip perfectly oriented in the CCFL gutter, I'm not likely to try again.
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